Journal #8: Working With a Partner

If you have attended at least one year of a public or private school, there is a very good chance that you have worked with a partner somewhere along the way. I enjoy working with a partner greatly, and think it is a great way to share ideas and produce some very good work between the two people. When you work with a partner you have more fun, and I also think that it gets you thinking more and you are more creative. It is a lot more fun to work with partner rather than by yourself. If you asked everyone what their favorite way to do something is, with or without a partner, then my guess would be that the conscious would be working with a partner would be more popular. For many projects teachers apply the method of using to partners. I think by letting students it lets them have more fun, be more excited about the project, and also get to know someone that you maybe have never really talked to before. If you are more excited to work on a project and have fun doing it, then you will probably produce better work and have a more creative project then if you just did it by yourself. There are also some negatives that involve working with a partner. If you are with someone who is very controlling and think that the “world revolves around them” then you will not have much input and the other partner might want to do everything their way. If your partner is lazy, then you might have to end up doing all the work while your partner sits back and doesn’t do anything. Also, if you are doing a project with one of your close friends, then you may be having too much fun and not accomplish everything in the project that you wanted to or that is required. Overall, with all the positive and negatives, I think that the positives definitely out weigh the negatives in working with a partner